Patents by Inventor Douglas E. Gibson

Douglas E. Gibson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Automated separation of corporate and private data for backup and archiving
    Patent number: 8972362
    Abstract: A computing device categorizes data items as a corporate data items when a first criterion is satisfied and as personal data items when a second criterion is satisfied. The computing device provides identified corporate data items to a first backup system that stores the corporate data items to a corporate data store. The computing device further provides identified personal data items to a second backup system that stores the personal data items to a personal data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Gibson, Keith Newstadt
  • Automated human assisted authentication
    Patent number: 8832788
    Abstract: A server computing system receives a request to authenticate the identity of a user. The user may wish to perform an action that requires the user's identity to first be verified. In response to the request, the server computing system automatically contacts trusted associates that are listed in policy data for the user and determines whether the trusted associates validate the identity of the user. The server computing system provides one-time passwords to the user for the trusted associates that have validated the identity of the user. Subsequently, the user can combine the one-time passwords to form an authentication password, which can be used to determine whether the user is allowed to perform the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Gibson, Keith Newstadt
  • AUTOMATED SEPARATION OF CORPORATE AND PRIVATE DATA FOR BACKUP AND ARCHIVING
    Publication number: 20140089279
    Abstract: A computing device categorizes data items as a corporate data items when a first criterion is satisfied and as personal data items when a second criterion is satisfied. The computing device provides identified corporate data items to a first backup system that stores the corporate data items to a corporate data store. The computing device further provides identified personal data items to a second backup system that stores the personal data items to a personal data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Gibson, Keith Newstadt
  • Automated separation of corporate and private data for backup and archiving
    Patent number: 8626714
    Abstract: A computing device categorizes data items as a corporate data items when a first criterion is satisfied and as personal data items when a second criterion is satisfied. The computing device provides identified corporate data items to a first backup system that stores the corporate data items to a corporate data store. The computing device further provides identified personal data items to a second backup system that stores the personal data items to a personal data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Gibson, Keith Newstadt